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Jul 5, 2012 | 5:47 pm

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Originally Posted by sdsearch

Um, while the plane body of a 738 is the same from carrier to carrier, the seating isn't. The reason the OP is avoiding the 738 on Southwest is because it guarantees this seating:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/south...knee-room.html

(There are ways to get that seating sometimes on non-738s, of course, but just a small chance for now. But on a 738, you're guaranteed to get that seating, so if you hate it, you want to avoid the 738.)

I seem to recall that the row spacing is greater on the 737-800 than on the 143-passenger 737-700. Is my memory correct?

A few years ago I flew an AeroMexico 737-800 in coach and it was a wonderful flight in every way, with plenty of seat pitch. After that experience, I was sad to see Southwest put the squeeze on seat pitch.

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